Hey Everyone,
I'm just looking for suggestions I may not have read or heard about but I've exhausted what I believe to be my options. Maybe I'm just paranoid, you tell me. Tank is a year old and was created through a tank transfer where I put 50% of existing water in with new water to jump start the transfer. I've got a Red Sea Reefer 350. Running 2 radion xr15, 1 mp40, 1 mp10, (offset on opposite sides of tank) and a hydro I've kept through the year. 24W Green Machine runs in sump, have had it for about 3 months lets say, not the best, not the worst I know. I've removed basically all the sand at this point. Nothing fancy underneath beyond return pump, octo 150 INT skimmer, the Green machine, and some bio filter media rolling around with the double filter socks and ATO for Red Sea.
PH is good. Nitrates are 5-10ppm. Phosphates basically non existent. Calc- 470 Alk- 9.0 Temp 77-78. Salinity 1.024.
I feed corals usually around lunch with phyto and reef roids. I feed frozen reef frenzy in the PM, about 1/2 a dimes worth. I don't believe I am over feeding because within 5 minutes, usually everything is consumed minus the small particulates. I skip some days randomly as well to make sure I don't overfeed.
The issue I have is, basically every day, a film grows on the tank glass. Is this normal? I feel like I should be able to go at least 3-5 days before I get build up the way I do. If I let it go, it'll creep onto bottom glass and eventually the sand, and rock etc.
I just experienced a diatom bloom after adding some reef rock and got it all under control with a large clean up crew addition. I've tried letting the go without doing water changes and seeing if it will correct itself, I've got weekly 20-25 gallon water changes, but it always comes back. The scum on glass was there before the diatom outbreak. It's not slime because I have to scrape it off the glass, it won't just rub away. Weirdly, I'm not sure if this is happening or just my imagination, but once the film on sides reaches my mp40, it almost seems like my mp40 passes the particulates over the reef and they start growing on the rock.
Am I crazy or is there a solution I could be missing? Is this normal? Should I just be concerned with my front glass and let it grow on the sides and back?
Any input would be greatly appreciated, suggestions, opinions, etc.
I attached a picture to give you an idea of what tank looks like set up. I wouldn't say I have a crazy bio load to be overloading the system.
Dr. Tims didn't work. Seachem stability didn't make a difference. Adding the UV, changing the lights to the radion, increasing flow with an additional mp10, none of this has made a major difference.
Thanks all, at my whits end here.
I'm just looking for suggestions I may not have read or heard about but I've exhausted what I believe to be my options. Maybe I'm just paranoid, you tell me. Tank is a year old and was created through a tank transfer where I put 50% of existing water in with new water to jump start the transfer. I've got a Red Sea Reefer 350. Running 2 radion xr15, 1 mp40, 1 mp10, (offset on opposite sides of tank) and a hydro I've kept through the year. 24W Green Machine runs in sump, have had it for about 3 months lets say, not the best, not the worst I know. I've removed basically all the sand at this point. Nothing fancy underneath beyond return pump, octo 150 INT skimmer, the Green machine, and some bio filter media rolling around with the double filter socks and ATO for Red Sea.
PH is good. Nitrates are 5-10ppm. Phosphates basically non existent. Calc- 470 Alk- 9.0 Temp 77-78. Salinity 1.024.
I feed corals usually around lunch with phyto and reef roids. I feed frozen reef frenzy in the PM, about 1/2 a dimes worth. I don't believe I am over feeding because within 5 minutes, usually everything is consumed minus the small particulates. I skip some days randomly as well to make sure I don't overfeed.
The issue I have is, basically every day, a film grows on the tank glass. Is this normal? I feel like I should be able to go at least 3-5 days before I get build up the way I do. If I let it go, it'll creep onto bottom glass and eventually the sand, and rock etc.
I just experienced a diatom bloom after adding some reef rock and got it all under control with a large clean up crew addition. I've tried letting the go without doing water changes and seeing if it will correct itself, I've got weekly 20-25 gallon water changes, but it always comes back. The scum on glass was there before the diatom outbreak. It's not slime because I have to scrape it off the glass, it won't just rub away. Weirdly, I'm not sure if this is happening or just my imagination, but once the film on sides reaches my mp40, it almost seems like my mp40 passes the particulates over the reef and they start growing on the rock.
Am I crazy or is there a solution I could be missing? Is this normal? Should I just be concerned with my front glass and let it grow on the sides and back?
Any input would be greatly appreciated, suggestions, opinions, etc.
I attached a picture to give you an idea of what tank looks like set up. I wouldn't say I have a crazy bio load to be overloading the system.
Dr. Tims didn't work. Seachem stability didn't make a difference. Adding the UV, changing the lights to the radion, increasing flow with an additional mp10, none of this has made a major difference.
Thanks all, at my whits end here.